مركز وثائق الثورة الإسلامية

Imam Khomeini used to swiftly reject the idea of any sort of reform and would resolutely fight any sort of advantage given by the Pahlavi regime. He dismissed as unacceptable Mohammad Reza Shah’s repentance, saying it was like Pharaoh’s repentance. We also rejected the idea of any transition government. He ridiculed the Shah’s initiative of free election and called it meaningless with the Shah on hand. He said the arrest of state leaders by Mohammad Reza was an amusing game. He said Sharif Emami’s national reconciliation government as well as the national government of Bakhtiar were tricks to stop the revolution. He would directly and strongly attack those who talked of accepting the constitution and would call it treason to Islam.

When in September 1979 Iraq invaded Iran, the two countries’ situations were completely different from each other. As the war started, Iran was deprived of any sort of foreign support, but on the other hand the Ba’ath regime of Iraq entered the war with full international backing and various Western and Arab countries would give him radars and defense systems as well as the latest equipment.

After the crane crash in Mecca this year which led to the death and injury of hundreds of pilgrims of the House of God, there were numerous speculations about the incident and its causes. At last, the issue was closed by putting the blame on sand storm and the demonstrations were ended. Creating excuses for this managerial scandal had not subsided yet when another bitter incident, on the day of the Eid al-Adha once again put Muslims in mourning suit. But this time again, Saudi officials cited natural factors such as the heat, the large number of the pilgrims, and lack of order among the pilgrims as the main causes counting for the incident in their helpless effort to find excuses. Despite these, historical records indicate that there have been numerous instances of Saudi mismanagement in holding the Hajj ritual. In many such cases, such as the slaughter of Iranian pilgrims in 1988, it is evident that the event has been quite willful.

countries had quite different situations. On one side there was Iran which after the fall of the Shah would see itself free of the rein of domestic and foreign rule and had no relations with world powers. On the other side was Iraq with its reliance on the US and which had started the attack with Western-made weapons.

during the First World War created so much rage among countries that they decided to ban the application of chemical weapons for good. This agreement led to the formation of the 1925 Geneva protocol which prohibited the use of choking gas, poisonous gas, and other forms of gas as well as microbe approaches to war. Iran joined the protocol in 1929 and Iraq did the same in 1931